Phone Call

Have you got someone who would unconditionally pick up your phone call no matter what? I used to answer this question with a yes, when I was young and naive.

The truth is there is always something that will take priority over your call.



Be it a toddling child eagerly exploring the world, an xbox game character on the brink of death, a friend and a couple pints of icy ales, or just work or a boss that are equally annoying... There's so much that is considered, more important than your phone call.

Especially since mobile phones became widely available, making a call could be about something as insignificant as "By the way, we are out of milk, can you get some on your way home?" With that, how are we to still take phone calls seriously?

Except us the old fashioned, that try to return every miss call that occasionally appears, and get a sheepish simple response: "I think I dialed the wrong number." And not even a sorry for that, since they realised their mistake in time and hung up, it is you that decided to persist and call back, why should they be sorry at all?

In the UK we generally text more than we call, since texts usually come for free and last a good deal longer than the minutes we were offered.

But sometimes, when you are desperate to find a person to talk to only to get a text in reply asking (very American like) "wot's up", like my ex used to (irony being, he was neither a Yank nor a Brit, but Slovanian), it seems to all the more defy the purpose of having a mobile to carry around and therefore easily reached at all times. . .

So here it is...musings of the behaviour of using mobile phones...